no pictures i am afraid will sort this out one day soon! just thought i would let you all know about my trip to charmouth in dorset it had been 18 months since my last trip so couldent wait to go again! left worthing 5am arrived on a falling tide at 7.30am did my usual hunt for fools gold on the beach as this often leads to some nice fools gold whole anomites which are beautifull bagged a few within minutes was then asked by an amateur tourist how to find fossils and told him there was one by his foot! i no longer consider myself an amatuer of sorts as been collecting in dorset for nearly 10 years now! i walked a bit further on and decided to do my usual and walk "round the horn" as i call it stumbled across a large slab full of fossils that would fit in my rucksack but decided against it as i already have a huge slab in my lounge lol! had lunch and found many large fragments of annomite in the mud and some smaller ones for the tourists on my trip back!
after filling my rucksack with some heavy stuff i noted some fossilized shrimps in thier thousands in the clay, this clay if any of you have seen it is the most soul destroying clay for fossil hunters as in it are many wonerously preserved annomites and things with real intense colour and detail but they just disintergrate when removed just like the shrimps did! i have never seen shrimps in the clay and it just goes to show you never know what you are going to find! i started on my long walk back and stumbled upon a vertebra from an ichosaur by pure accident as i was texting my wrorried girlfriend to tell her i had not been killed in a landslide lol!
i had never found vertebra before so was thrilled to say the least! i performed my customary giving out of fossils to the tourists and families on the way back to the car (they are always entralled to be given fossils as they rarely find any good ones and i feel if i can spark an interest in a youngster then its worth the effort!)
after changing my muddy clothes in the toilets popped in to see my mate at charmouth town fossil shop (not the heritage centre, although nothing wrong with that place!)
if i ask nicely he always shows me "behind the scenes" as it were, today he had a 10 foot baby plesiosaur skeleton which he was preparing for sale, last year i saw a baby t-rex skull, popped into lyme regis and saw another old associate and filled in the fossil gaps in our lives since we last met, its funny how they remember me, got home at 6.30pm and went to work at 7pm very satisfied, am not going to leave it so long before my next trip! hope i have not bored you to death with my report, but just thought i would share it with you lot on here!
ta ta for now, and when i can finnaly upload pictures i have some pretty good stuff in my collection now!!!!!
after filling my rucksack with some heavy stuff i noted some fossilized shrimps in thier thousands in the clay, this clay if any of you have seen it is the most soul destroying clay for fossil hunters as in it are many wonerously preserved annomites and things with real intense colour and detail but they just disintergrate when removed just like the shrimps did! i have never seen shrimps in the clay and it just goes to show you never know what you are going to find! i started on my long walk back and stumbled upon a vertebra from an ichosaur by pure accident as i was texting my wrorried girlfriend to tell her i had not been killed in a landslide lol!
i had never found vertebra before so was thrilled to say the least! i performed my customary giving out of fossils to the tourists and families on the way back to the car (they are always entralled to be given fossils as they rarely find any good ones and i feel if i can spark an interest in a youngster then its worth the effort!)
after changing my muddy clothes in the toilets popped in to see my mate at charmouth town fossil shop (not the heritage centre, although nothing wrong with that place!)
if i ask nicely he always shows me "behind the scenes" as it were, today he had a 10 foot baby plesiosaur skeleton which he was preparing for sale, last year i saw a baby t-rex skull, popped into lyme regis and saw another old associate and filled in the fossil gaps in our lives since we last met, its funny how they remember me, got home at 6.30pm and went to work at 7pm very satisfied, am not going to leave it so long before my next trip! hope i have not bored you to death with my report, but just thought i would share it with you lot on here!
ta ta for now, and when i can finnaly upload pictures i have some pretty good stuff in my collection now!!!!!